Archives for
January 2007

Gather.com is launching an online writing contest this week, inviting aspiring writers to submit a manuscript for a full-length work of fiction. The first entry of each chapter will be posted to Gather and voted on by the site's users. In round two, ...

YSN.com, which launches officially tomorrow, is a new "success network". In some respects, it's LinkedIn for ambitious college kids - a place for young entrepreneurs to network. It was founded by Jennifer Kushell and Scott M. Kaufman, co-authors the ...

Now in private beta (and with early access passes available if you're fast), comes Flikzor, a widget that allows you to accept video comments on MySpace, Friendster, Piczo, hi5, Xanga and your blog. Users create a video greeting for their friends, an...

We've said in the past that there's no point launching a generic video sharing site now, since YouTube is too dominant. That's not totally true, since YouTube's policy is to reject two types of content: violence images and porn. PornoTube is among th...

Bebo Poaches Googler - Bebo has hired a top dealmaker away from Google with the aim of increasing sponsorship revenues - an announcement is expected on Monday. Joanna Shields, who headed Google’s European strategic partnerships team, will be the head...

The video search engine Blinkx is announcing a partnership today with the sports entertainment company NBX. As part of the deal, Blinx will index "hundreds of hours" of sports clips from NBX, meaning that you can search for them at Blinx.com. NBX cov...

By far the most common consulting question we get at Mashable, at least twice a day, is which platform or white label solution is best to base your social site on. There's not one single answer, but in quite a few cases we suggest Drupal, a free, ope...

Another mobile social network that's currently in preview mode: ImThere was created by University of Missouri-Rolla student Benjamin Roodman and attempts to connect members around events like concerts, film festivals and parties. It's really pretty i...

Trig.com, which is currently in private beta, is a slick-looking new social network with an interesting twist. Users of the Stockholm-based site can skin their profiles with one of twelve designs and you have the choice to include a biography, a frie...

Music Nation, an artist development agency that launched in March 2006, has raised $5.5 million in first round funding led by Greylock Partners, it's being reported today. Point Judith Capital also contributed to the round. The founding team includes...

Footnote - Footnote is a new service that puts historical documents online - 4.5 million documents are currently indexed. There is, however, a fee for accessing certain documents. (via) iJigg - Launching today, iJigg is Digg for music. There are far ...

Boxxet, the human powered portals service first mentioned on Mashable way back in March 2006, is launching on Tuesday. They're also announcing funding of $900,000 from Ascend Venture Group. As mentioned previously, Boxxet (as in "box set") is a serie...

YourMinis, the Flash startpage from Goowy, has added the ability to post your minis (aka widgets) on MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and everywhere else, the site's founder told Mashable today. You can see this functionality by visiting the site, addin...

YouTube Gandhi - The Indian government has threatened to block YouTube over a video of a comedian dressed as Mahatma Gandhi doing a pole dance. University students even staged a sit-in on a train to protest against the clip. But the most offensive th...

The folks at Habbo Hotel are considering the release of an animated feature film based on the virtual world. Habbo and the independent film studio Lionsgate want to gauge interest in the release, and over the next two weeks they'll invite Habbo Hotel...

Vox has just announced the launch of Vox Groups, which allows Vox members to create public or private groups for sharing their blog posts, photos, videos, music and the rest. Groups can be public, invite-only or private, and the group owner can give ...

SpyMac announced today the relaunch of their Mac fan site, with a plan to pay members more than $100,000 for their submissions in the first month. The new version of the site has been rolled out incrementally over the past two weeks, with the officia...

MySpace Passwords - The MySpace passwords that got stolen during one MySpace phishing attack have been floating around the web today. There's some debate about whether the chosen passwords prove that MySpacers are imbeciles or not. It's worth noting,...

We've received multiple emails in the last hour or so that Facebook has pulled its Pulse feature without an explanation - it now redirects to the homepage. Pulse was launched in December 2005, and acted like Facebook's version of Google Zeitgeist. It...

Widgipedia has been around since late last year, providing a gallery of desktop widgets for Yahoo Widgets, Kapsules, the Mac Dashboard, KlipFolio, Desktop X and lots of other platforms. The site is nicely designed, with ajax to save on pageloads, use...

KoolIM, the web-based IM service that rivals Meebo, has just launched its 2.0 version tonight and informed Mashable that they've closed a round of angel round of funding. The new version includes an embedded IM client on the page itself, as users wit...

MySpace has received plenty of bad press over child safety, and now they're reacting: the company is working on software, currently nicknamed ""Zephyr", which allows parents to track what their children are doing on the site. Zephyr allows parents to...

ReverbNation is announcing a partnership today with Snocap, the music distribution company that already has a deal to sell songs through MySpace Music. The ReverbNation deal is similar, allowing fans to buy music from the artist's ReverbNation profil...

Facebook said today that they've added the ability to list screen names from multiple IM clients in the contact info section of Facebook profiles. Previously, only AIM was included; but since other clients are very popular outside of the US, MSN, Yah...

Piczo told me to hold this one back, but since it's already out there, we might as well go ahead and mention that the social networking site has raised $11 million in a round led by US Venture Partners and Mangrove Capital, with Sierra Ventures and C...

The Sundance Film Festival is imminent, and I don't think there are many social sites that aren't being leveraged as a marketing tool. Today Stickam is set to announce that the site will provide a behind-the-scenes broadcast of the festival in Utah f...

We just got a tip-off from a reliable source that IDT, the telecoms company that acquired the mobile ringtone and wallpaper-sharing site Zedge.net back in December, has now acquired the Latino social network MiMun2 for an undisclosed sum. We haven't ...

JellyBarn, which began around a year ago as a licensable solution for photo sharing, is getting widgetized. iBubble is the company's new application which lets users put speech bubbles, frames, captions, facial hair and more on their photos. The widg...

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